I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates. Oct. 29, 2001.

Chaos is a friend of mine. (December 9, 1985)

We had the hardware expertise, the industrial design expertise and the software expertise, including iTunes. One of the biggest insights we have was that we decided not to try to manage your music library on the iPod, but to manage it in iTunes. Other companies tried to do everything on the device itself and made it so complicated that it was useless.

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach. 11 June 1956

In a word, no. I've seen the demonstrations on the Internet about how you can find another person using a Zune and give them a song they can play three times. It takes forever. By the time you've gone through all that, the girl's got up and left! You're much better off to take one of your earbuds out and put it in her ear. Then you're connected with about two feet of headphone cable. When asked whether he was concerned over Microsoft Zune's wireless capability.

It is hard to think that a $2 billion company with 4,300-plus people couldn't compete with six people in blue jeans. On Apple's lawsuit following his resignation to form NeXT, 1985-09-30.

There are sneakers that cost more than an iPod. On the iPod's $300 price tag, 2003-10-27.